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Stabilization Strategies for Preventing Secondary Reactions During Lignin Depolymerization and Valorization
(2021-04-20)
Lignin-derived phenolic and aromatic monomers are rapidly being recognized as forerunners in the race to make sustainable biopolymers that can fulfill the world’s demands for materials in the future. However, lignin being ...
Stable Colloidal Dispersions of Highly Concentrated Thermo-efficient Nanomaterials
(2017-02-08)
Phase change materials (PCM) were utilized as solvents to synthesize small particles and stabilize them in those media in order to determine time independent thermal properties of nanostructure-enhanced phase change materials ...
Staff Scheduling in Service Systems with Non-Stationary Arrival Processes
(2021-12-05)
There are significant issues that cause customers’ dissatisfaction with service systems.
One of the most critical frustrations deals with the unpredictable waiting time in the queue
before getting service. This issue is ...
Stage-specific responses to freshwater mussels to temperature and suspended solids
(2013-04-22)
Elevated levels of suspended solids (TSS) are one of the most widespread water quality problems in streams, rivers, and lakes throughout North America, yet little is known about their effect on populations of freshwater ...
Staggered and In-line Submerged Jet Arrays for Power Electronics Using Variable Area Discharge Manifolds
(2018-07-03)
Power electronics packages in electric and hybrid vehicles require dedicated and dynamic cooling to perform reliably. Generally, such packages are designed to spread heat to a large surface area, and employing the radiator ...
Staging and Upstaging Revolt: The Maternal Function in Twentieth Century Drama
(2009-07-24)
This dissertation explores the maternal role in subject formation and surveys varying depictions of this role in twentieth-century drama. While sifting through the genealogy of psychoanalytic theory, this project investigates ...
Stakeholder Perspectives on Wild Pig Management in Alabama
(2018-11-15)
The wild pig (Sus scrofa) is a globally detrimental invasive species with negative economic, ecological, and public health impacts. Despite the well-known negative impacts associated with wild pigs, little is known about ...
Stakeholders Perspectives of Factors that Facilitate and Hinder Student Success in High Achieving, High Poverty, High Minority Rural High Schools in Alabama
(2016-08-05)
This study investigated high performing, high poverty, and high minority rural high schools in Alabama. Three types of schools, fringe, distant and remote formed the sample. The study examined key stakeholders’ perceptions ...
Standards for School Leaders: Considering Historical, Political, and National Organizational Influences
(2007-08-15)
Since their publication, standards for school leaders have influenced policy action at the national, state, and local levels. Much of the initial work in administrative standards implementation has taken place in the ...
The Standoff: First Presbyterian Church of Columbus, Georgia, Robert McNeill, and Racial Equality
(2011-08-17)
The civil rights movements of the mid-twentieth century touched every segment
of American society. American churches were one central battle ground with opponents
and supporters of integration leveraging biblical ...
Standpoints of reentry: A qualitative analysis of female maternity leaves with corporate communication implications
(2022-01-03)
Navigating motherhood is a complex and cumbersome task. Many women in contemporary society are electing to take on motherhood while maintaining full time employment, necessitating a maternity leave. Because the U.S. does ...
Staphylococcal and Streptococcal Biotechnology: Utilization of Bacterial Tools to Advance Preclinical Research and Healthcare
(2023-08-03)
Existing within microcosms of their own making, bacteria sculpt the surrounding environment by responding to the current climate or altering their habitat for protection and survival. The net effect of the bacterium’s ...
The Starless Night of Centralism: Examining The Language of War in and outside of Revolutionary Texas
(2020-05-11)
Texian officials and American Democratic party newspapers pushed for a cause that they believed appealed to shared ideals concerning Jeffersonianism, centralism, race, liberty, slavery, nationalism, kinship, and identity. ...
Stars and Hyperstars
(2012-07-02)
A \textit{$k$-star} is a complete bipartite graph $K_{1,k}$, and a hypergraph $G=(X,\mathcal{E})$ is a \textit{hyperstar} with center $C$ if $\displaystyle C\subseteq\bigcap_{E\in\mathcal{E}}E$. Given (hyper)graphs $G$ ...
State and Local Government Policy Adoption: Section 218 of the Social Security Act
(2013-12-05)
This research examines state and local governments’ decisions to participate in Social Security coverage for employees and the financial effects that mandating Social Security coverage will have on the budgets and pensions ...
State Government and Responsible Party Successsion
(2015-07-29)
The ability of a state to maintain administrative efficacy and party consistency in the executive branch when a governor leaves office early is sometimes difficult. These difficulties can, at times, be directly related to ...
State Implementation of Collaborative Aging and Disability Policy
(2015-12-10)
This research examines aging and disability collaborative arrangements at the state level. The focus is on how states design their collaborative long-term care service delivery programs through the Aging and Disability ...
State of Charge Estimation for Advanced Batteries: Reduced Order Electrochemical Modeling with Error Compensation
(2011-11-17)
Advanced battery management systems are essential for efficient electrification of vehicles. Correct state of charge (SOC) estimates will maintain a battery within its charge limits and extend its usable life. Existing SOC ...
A State of Perpetual Inbetweenness: Black Women Negotiating Liminal Spaces in Contemporary Literature
(2019-12-09)
My dissertation underscores how Black women transform space through liminality, a term I use to unpack notions surrounding being Black and woman and living at the intersection of race and gender. More specifically, I define ...
State of the Practice of Long Distance and Intercity Travel Modeling in US Metropolitan Planning Organizations and State Departments of Transportation
(2019-04-23)
Long distance and intercity travel represent a small percentage of total trips in the U.S., yet they represent a large percentage of total VMT. Long distance trips represent an important travel market with over $317 billion ...